​ SECTION 3*
Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution

URBANIZATION- Moving from the country to the city in search for a new job.​

*New Social Classes*

• Middle class- Factory owners (inventors, merchants assistants with the factory) --

~ owned and operated mines and railroads.
~ life was more simple for the middle class: had a need supply of water, good food,
and dressed well
~ women focused on staying at home and taking care of their children

• Working Class- Lower class

~ originally farmed land; did NOT own the land
~ were forced to move to the city to find a job.
~ lived in tenements (multi-story buildings with NO running water, NO sewage, NO sanitation)
~ the poor will throw dirty waste into the street or the river = pollution of water source = disease (cholera)

tenements

LABOR UNIONS- a group of people that worked to initiate worker reforms such as increase in pay. some labor unions were known to have their frustrations lead to violenc

LIFE IN THE FACTORIES AND MINE

Working in factories workers faced a rigid schedule, set by a factory whistle.

• Most shifts were 12-16 hours 6-7 days a week
• Breaks were only allowed when the factory owner allowed them breaks
• Workers were exhausted from the long hours which resulted in injuries such as; lose of a finger, limb, or even their lives
• Workers who became sick with disease or injury usually would lose their job and be replaced by another worker
• Most factory workers were women because they were easer to manage and would adapt more quickly than men
• Women were also paid half the amount that men were paid in the factory

MINERS

• Industrial Revolution led to the increase in coal and iron
• Miners were paid more because the conditions in the mines were worse than the conditions in the factories
• Working area was dark and all the dust in the minds destroyed workers' lungs
• Women and children would cart heavy loads of coal on all fours through passages in the mines

  jobs in the mine

CHILDREN'S JOBS

• Children began working at the age of 7 and 8 and as young as 5
• Because of their fast moving fingers children changed spools in the textile mills
• Children also crawled under machines to fix any damages they were able to
• Some children worked all day in the dark at the mines hauling loads of coal in the heat
• FACTORY ACTS- laws passed in the 1800's that reduced child labor; these laws reduced children's work days to 12 hours and no children under the age of 8 were allowed to work in the cotton mills.
• These factory acts were generally not enforced which led British lawmaker teams up to inspect the factories to make sure these rules were being enforced.

Times During the Revolution
^^ from houses, to pollution, to child labor; all the parts of the industrial revolution wrapped in one.

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